Re: SVN tetex-bin commit: r2079 - in tetex-bin/trunk/debian: . patches

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> +  {"b5var" , { 515.91, 651.97}}};
> +/* The unit used is 0.35278 mm, whatever that is */
> +/* If you add sizes, also add them in texconfig (look for "dvipdfm sources") */
>
>
> 0.35278 mm = 1/72 in, the PostScript point (big point 'bp' in TeX, where
> 'pt' is 1/72.27 in). 

Thanks - I knew I could have looked it up, but also that someone would
probably know it offhand ;-)

> But what is b5var? I have never heared of any
> 'variant' ISO pagesizes. 

That was already in there, I just kept it.  In other words, I don't have
strong feelings against kicking it out...

> Besides, I am not sure if these sizes are
> actually correct:
>
> $ paperconf -p b5 -s 
> 498.898 708.661
>
> Similar for the other b? sizes. There is no such discrepancy for the a?
> sizes: 
>
> $ paperconf -p a4 -s 
> 595.276 841.89
>
> What's going on here?

These I didn't touch either.  We should fix them.

> *Not* 148.5 mm as one might think. The above list for a? sizes uses a
> simple swapping and devision by 2, though.

The ones that I added were taken from Wikipedia.  Do you have a
trustable source, either on the net or in a fairly well sorted natural
sciences university library?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)